2026-06-09 12:38 UTC
Bad papers, incorrect references, and superficial reviews existed long before #ChatGPT. AI did not invent poor scholarship – it simply made it scalable.
In our new paper, we argue that the debate should move beyond AI slop toward the broader concept of academic slop: low-quality scholarship produced without sufficient care, whether by humans or machines.
:doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/10875301.2026.2685154
#AcademicSlop #AISlop #ResearchIntegrity #AcademicPublishing #GenerativeAI
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@katayoun_asgarzadeh@sciences.social 2026-06-13 20:26
@serhii@mstdn.science Your point lands perfectly. As I am working on my thesis, I frequently experience this exact issue with Claude. it gives me references that look incredibly real but simply don't exist (no DOI, no trace). I find that Google Scholar's AI search (https://scholar.google.com/scholar_labs/search) is much better at providing actual, verifiable sources. Does your analysis happen to cover sports science journals at all?